i can see abigail adams sitting and clutching her scorching hot cup of joe, john adams saying sit down and drink your damn coffee, woman. she really was the brains of the outfit. my mother is overworked, tired, but her still solid body stood hard as a rock. i'm not going to cry, as a tear falls down from her face. don't cry, mom, don't cry. [cheers and applause] >> that was her first time ever. yay! and up next we have indiana telepenova. >> a recipe for water. start with the color magenta, a burning asphalt, of beach ball sighing out its life, a garden grown on accident after accident, add a father painting shelves on the cove, a pinch of guilt, statues of isabella butter flisse -- butterflies, and extinct alpha betts, a teaspoon of autumn leaves, a shepard playing with the winds, some animal begging for snow. mix vigorously like the mountain mixes up its slopes. preheat the bed of a star to -- 240 light-years away. thank you. and next is -- [cheers and applause] >> next is robin black. >> hi, robin! >> oh, ok. i had to know. this is called "eviction notice." the police turned us away

one is abigail adams, often overlooked. if you think about the revolutionary war, women were not in front of the group. there were left behind with the children. when you look at abigail adams and her letter, you see a woman that clearly was very, very bright, highly educated, and asked a really great question. when you read your letters and see her questions you think, she is giving him the next thing to do. and one of the things, she reminds him that every member from a kind of like right now. remember the people in georgia, out in texas, in california. she reminded him of the people at home. see also reminded him if a form of government is to be established what one will be assumed? what is going to happen? how will you for this government? how will it be made up? but clearly their relationship, not only provided him with stability but also intellectually challenged him to think about the right form of government. the other one is jeane kirkpatrick. i am really very fond of her. very interesting because very, very bright

one is abigail adams, often overlooked. women weren't in front of the group, they were left behind with the children. but when you look at abigail adams and her letters with john, you see a woman that, clearly, was very, very bright, highly educated and asked really great questions. and when you read her letters and be you see her questions, you think, she's kind of prodding him -- she's giving him the next thing to do, right? just to make sure. she reminds him that every member feels for us. kind of like we do right now when you get calls from constituents who say remember the people down in georgia? remember the people out in the texas? or remember those out in california? she reminded hip of the people -- him of the people at home. she also reminded him if a form of government is to be established, what one will be assumed? what's going to happen? how will you form this government? how will it be made up? clearly, their relationship not only provided him with stability as a family, but also intellectually challenged him

she shares a distinction with abigail adams, she was both the wife of the president and the mother of a president. the bushes continue to live happily, mr. bush is still jumping out of airplanes on his birthday. mrs. bush has had some health issues but she's still pretty well and i would like to conclude my comments by actually reading this last paragraph from the book. so i said, barbara pierce bush remains an i nothing ma but few would argue with her celebrity, her popularity or her influence. that she used her considerable energies to improve a lot americans in literacy is a test want to her white house tenure and she has certainly earned the title of first lady of literacy. she became the public face of the george h.w. bush administration with connecticut travel and participation in ceremonial events and speeches. she used the white house podium effectively to articulate her views and concern. she was a perceptive politician who knew how to work a crowd or bend an arm if necessary. during her busy public life, she made a number of comments that might have tarnished her image but h

. >> abigail adams had to sleep with him. >> betsy ross sewed it into the constitution. moynihan, you said you were originally on the side of the barker. you say it is okay to bark loudly in a crowded kennel? >> yes, of course. you call yourself a libertarian? >> no, i agree that he had every right to bark at the dog. i also wish that the police officer had accidentally let the dog out of the car. >> that's what i said. i don't know whose side i am really on, if i want him to be mauled. >> greg, you seem shocked he said something hackee. that was funny. moynihan, you said lopez is making people think they will vote for palin. since she said that, she is up 78 points. >> do you have those numbers? >> they are just in. >> are you sure it is on not a quinipack. >> by the way, lopez's new movie opens on friday. currently he has a zero percent rating at rotten tomatoes. >> which smurf is he? >> not funny smurf. >> unintel liegeable smurf. >>> as jack baker would say to you, great job, andy. go poop. coming up, what is it like to be hounded by old, ugly men trying to get you i

abigail adams, of course, exhorted him not to forget the women or enslaved people and he really talked in their correspondence which you go a little bit but lots of folks talk about their correspondence about having the union or having enslavement. >> guest: right. >> host: there was a choice to be made that we would have to pay for as a nation much later. >> guest: yes, and they understood that and adams was from massachusetts. he was not a slave owner and opposed slavery. his wife was more than an abolitionist than he was and you could see that in the correspondence as you mentioned. and she felt that slavery was not only wrong for the country but it was a sin. but her husband would never do anything about it politically again 'cause fear of the southern states. the fear of that -- that he would have a secession on his hands and, of course, that is what happened later under lincoln. but there's always been this fear for many years in the united states that the south, if it was forced to accept the end of slavery and later desegregation and equality would cause problems for a presiden

since abigail adams asked john to remember the ladies, and he didn't, and the ladies did not foment therevolution that they promised him they were going to do if he didn't remember them, that has been the, that has been the sequence and the trajectory, and that's what we need to change. no excuses power tool number two is define your term first before someone else defines you. we all know whoever defines the terms wins the debate. and i think just in redefining power i've given you an example of defining your own terms. use what you've got. again, as connie and i both took what was a liability to us in our youth, we hated that feeling of being different, of not being good enough, of not measuring up. but that's what propelled us into leadership, what gave us the passion for the poor, for the sick, for those who needed help in whatever way. use what you've got. i learned to embrace controversy. i learned to love -- how many of you love controversy? [laughter] i knew there'd be a few here. [laughter] how many of you hate controversy? see, most people really back off of controversy. but wh

and then it went back again for adams, because he and abigail were there for a long time, and he played a crucial part during the revolutionary wear. the revolution war. what i really wanted to do was taking a look at a period which the adams franklin jeffeon me hadeen word over pretty well included by me. >> charlie: in the hemingway period. >> donep and down. and here was this -year gap a it was, in which some of the most interesting and influential americans ever were there and were greatly affected by the experience. and that threw me. i also feel strongly and i felt it increasingly as i thought more and more about the american story, that our history isn't just about generals and politicians. and that if we leave out the art, the music, the medicine, the realm of ideas, if we leave out educators and sculptures and architects, we're leaving out much not only of the subject matter of our sty, but the soul. >> charlie: and the permance of a civilization. >> exactly. and there's a wonderf quote from john kennedy which i can't say it, that our power should no be st our strength shoul no

john adams' letter to abigail on the second or third of july 1776 said that this was going to be theties and illuminations and fireworks from one shore to this day forward. so it goes way back. and it not only exists and persists, but grows every year. it's part of us. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day: president obama thanked military families at the white house today for theirçç servie telling them the fourth of july is possible because of what they do. a major clean-up effort was underway in montana after an o a major clean-up effort was underway in montana, after an oil spill spewed up to 42,000 gallons into the yellowstone river. and security forces in syria opened fire on residents in hama and sealed off the city. there were also reports they fired on people trying to flee to turkey. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the "newshour" online. hari? >> sreenivasan: watch josh ritter read from his new novel and peorm his song "girl in the war" on art beat. and there's more on the weekend's election in thailand. will a new leader help bridge deep political divi